News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading: call for papers
Other events
British Academy: First annual SHAPE conference, London
Webinar: Will AI Change the World? Evaluating AI in the public and private sector
The Future of Free Speech on Campus, House of Commons, London
COP29 De-Brief–State-of-Play and Challenges, London
Black Europe: Diamond Ashiagbor on EU integration and European colonialism, London
The Miscarriages of Justice following the Hillsborough Disaster, Manchester
Annual Toulson Law Lecture: Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court, University of Surrey
How Do New Legal Rights Emerge?, Birmingham
2024
December
The ‘Inconspicuous Impact’ of Feminist Pressure Through Law
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University)
See website for details.
White Collar Crime – Challenges and Solutions
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: Derby University and online
See announcement for details. Registration now open: see invitation for details.
Technology and Social Justice
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: LegalTech and LTU, New Station Street, Leeds
Speaker: Dr Jessica Guth
See website for details.
Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation: webinar
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: online (Microsoft Teams)
See announcement for details.
The Books That Made Me – with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
Date: 5 December 2025
Venue: British Academy, London, and online
See website for details.
Law, Economy and Society in NSL-era Hong Kong: A reflection of the 40th anniversary of the Sino-British joint declaration
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: Senate House, University of London
See website for details.
Campus Free Speech: Lunchtime seminar with Professor Cass Sunstein
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: IALS, London
See website for details.
Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future
Dates: 5–6 December 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde
See website for details.
Exploring Creative Research Methods in Socio-Legal Studies
Dates: 5–6 December 2024
Venue: La Trobe Campus, Melbourne, Australia
See announcement for details.
Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details.
Second International Gender Studies In Turkey Conference
Dates: 7–8 December 2024
Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
See website for details.
Changes in Light: Premiere
Date: 9 December 2024
Venue: IALS, London
See website for details of this short film that focuses on the decolonising work of IALS.
International Criminal Law – Where We Are and Where Are We Going?,
Date: 10 December 2024
Venue: IALS, London
Speaker: Judge Howard Morrison, former UK judge to the International Criminal Court
See website for details.
The Future of Free Speech on Campus
Date: 10 December 2024
Venue: House of Commons, London
Organised by SOAS ICOP. See website for details.
COP29 De-Brief–State-of-Play and Challenges
Date: 10 December 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment. See website for details.
Black Europe: Diamond Ashiagbor on EU integration and European colonialism
Date: 10 December 2024
Venue: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London
Organised by UCL European Institute. See website for details.
Human Rights Litigation and Technology: The case against the Police High Command in Chilve
Date: 11 December 2024
Venue: online from Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, Anglia Ruskin University
See poster and webpage for details.
A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and church–state power in Ireland
Date: 11 December 2024
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Dr Mark Coen
See website for details.
Webinar: Will AI Change the World? Evaluating AI in the public and private sector
Date: 11 December 2024
Venue: online from Academy of Social Sciences and the Social Research Association
See website for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details.
Law and Social Justice: Exploring intersections and innovations conference
Date: 13 December 2024
Venue: online from Leeds Trinity University
See announcement for further details.
(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and where was the United Kingdom?
Dates: 12–14 December 2024
Venue: Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
See invitation for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 13–14 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia
See announcement for details.
2025
January
Law Commission Review of Disabled Children's Social Care: Consultation event
Date: 8 January 2025
Venue: Irwin Mitchell, Sheffield
See website for details.
PhD Day: invitation to PhD law students
Date: 11 January 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See invitation for details. Closing date for applications: 10 December 2024.
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
See website for details.
The Geometry of Legal Thought
Date: 16 January 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL
See website for details.
North and South: Judicial cooperation between the United Kingdom and the Global South
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: University of Leicester and online
Speaker: President of the UK Supreme Court/the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Robert Reed, Lord Reed of Allermuir
See invitation for details.
Book Launch – Structural Injustice and the Law
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: UCL Institute for Human Rights, London
See website for details.
The European Research Context for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Date: 22 January 2025
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
Current Legal Problems: The social side of fair process
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson, University of York
See website for details.
Digital Rights, online conference: call for papers
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: online hosted by University of Derby, in partnership with Valencia University, Portsmouth University and Haifa University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 9 December 2024. Registration is also open: closing date 20 January 2025.
DigiRights Project Final Conference – The digitalisation of defence rights: time for new perspectives … and directives?
Dates: 30–31 January 2025
Venue: KU Lueven, Belgium
See announcement for details.
February
World Conference on Qualitative Research
Dates: 4–6 February 2025, in person/11–13 February 2025, online
Venue: Kraków, Poland, and online
See website for details.
Accessibility and the Limits of the Equality Act 2010
Date: 6 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, Endlseigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Anna Lawson, University of Leeds
Chair: Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson, House of Lords
See website for details.
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society
Dates: 10–12 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland
See website for details.
The Miscarriages of Justice following the Hillsborough Disaster
Date: 13 February 2024
Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester
Speaker: David Conn, Investigations Correspondent at The Guardian and current news reporter of the year
See website for details.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI
Date: 19 February 2025
Venue: IALS, London
Speaker: Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
See website for details.
Annual Toulson Law Lecture: Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court
Date: 19 February 2024
Venue: Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey, Guildford
Theme: The role of judges in the rule of law and the promotion of international flourishing
See website for details.
Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law
Date: 20 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol)
See website for details.
March
The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Theme: Radical Lawyers? Rethinking the law and society canon
Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy
See website for details.
UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull
Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic
See website for details.
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood: call for papers
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: University of Reading and hybrid
See announcement for details. Call closes: 6 December 2024. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Family Law as Social Policy: Taking Family Problems Upstream
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professior Rob George,
Chair: Professor Mavis Maclean
See website for details.
April
British Academy: First annual SHAPE conference
Date: 2 April 2025
Venue: Carton House, London
Save the date: further details will be available in the new year.
Symposium on Roger Cotterrell's Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies
Date: 3 April 2025
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
How Do New Legal Rights Emerge?
Date: 7 April 2025
Venue: Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham
Speakers: Dr Meghan Campbell and Dr William Mack, University of Birmingham
See website for details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
May
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: call for applications from ECRs
Dates: 7–9 May 2025
Venue: Berlin, Germany
See website for details. Closing date for applications: 15 January 2025.
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Criminal Mind Research Network launch event
Date: 23 May 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See announcement for details.
June
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details. Call closes: 25 January 2025.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 6 January 2025.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.
2026
June
WG Hart Workshop 2026: call for proposals
Dates and venue: tbc
IALS is now seeking proposals to organise the 2026 WG Hart Workshop. The WG Hart Bequest provides a budget of approximately £7000 to use towards the running costs of the Workshop. In addition to this, the Institute covers the cost of venue hire, publicity and administrative support. The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a two-day workshop with plenary and parallel sessions, so as to permit participation by a wide range of scholars. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2025. Further details can be found on the website.